Image Storytelling

Image Storytelling

An improvised answer from officer Schabowski led a 1989 press conference to most accidentally trigger the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Since the 1960 televised Presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy, media steadily marched into an inescapable centrality in politics.

However, it is only with the 1991 Gulf War that - among many socio-political changes - a communicative milestone was truly established.

As new-borns in the Middle East would be named 'CNN,' and a French philosopher argue that The Gulf War did not take place, (visual) media have been promoted to the imperative requisite for politics.

They now infuse our daily lives and most important affects in declinations as diverse and unexpected as today's 'alternative facts.'

Through online platforms, social changes and political events have recently been witnessed, disseminated and discussed in increasingly more participatory ways.

In parallel, digital media have been playing a capitol role in the last three US Presidential Elections, and, arguably so, in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Rumours over Russian media agencies swaying recent political consultations are under very close scrutiny.

For the last 25 years, I have been analysing how contemporary visual imageries are created, disseminated and eventually 'validated.'

Crucially, I have myself been producing a few of those imageries as a photo-journalist and multimedia producer, working almost everywhere from Morocco to China.

This website is home to my academic research and professional training on visual communication.